Under the Cherry Moon

Prince directs and stars in this tale about a gigolo-pianist in the South of France. Tricky: Jerome Benton. Mary: Kristin Scott-Thomas. Mrs. Wellington: Francesca Annis. Mrs. Sharon: Alexandra Stewart. Sharon: Steven Berkoff., Prince rains on his own parade as director and star in this tale about a gigolo-pianist in the South of France., Rock-star Prince pays tribute to himself in this self-indulgent, musical follow-up to his smash hit Purple Rain. Christopher Tracy plays piano in a posh restaurant on the French Riviera. When working the bar, he is out trying to con rich women with his partner Tricky. The two try to woo an heiress worth $50 million and when her father disapproves mayhem ensues., An exercise in self-adoration set in the South of France where director Prince also stars as a gigolo who uses his job as a pianist in a chic restaurant to meet, smile seductively at, and thereby render spellbound any rich woman he has a notion to fleece that evening. This all works splendidly until he actually falls in love with a beautiful young heiress and has to contend with the efforts of her father to stop their relationship., Prince’s vanity project wins points for its stylish black and white cinematography but loses them for its story of a Miami gigolo musician falling for an heiress in the south of France.